The Footprint of the Establishment

Every time we need to know what happened in the past we refer to history books, visit a local library, check the Internet or look into our own archives to see what history tells us. But how many times do we wonder about what history doesn't tell us? See, history is not written by historians, they just give us accounts of it; of that official version of history. The reason why many look back in time is to avoid making the same mistakes that our ancestors made as humanity advanced. But how do we avoid those mistakes if we simply don't know them?

You don't have to be an expert in history to figure out who wrote it and why. It takes a couple of clicks nowadays. After finishing college, anyone can surely say, for example, what type of government we have, where our educational system comes from and why we fought and continue to fight bloody wars for decades. What if I told you that part of the history you know; the one learned in elementary school, high school and college is not as it is drawn by the books we so carefully read?

If your educated guess to the first example is a Constitutional Democracy or a Republic the answer is wrong. If your answer to the second example is from our Founding Fathers, it is wrong, too. And if your answers to the third example are freedom and independence, they are also wrong.